Headline: Read all about it: short film scripts for aspiring screenwriters | Show Me Shorts Film Festival

Before you begin writing your short film script, read all the screenplays you can find. How often have you been told that? They’re not easy to get hold of though, so we’ve come to your assistance with a selection of scripts you can read. These are all for New Zealand shorts that have been successfully made into films, and featured at Show Me Shorts Film Festival. Huge thanks go out to all of the filmmakers that were generous enough to share their scripts.

Tee Party

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Insomniac strangers in the night. A cranky security guard and a long-haul pilot meet at a 24 hour driving range. An unlikely friendship develops.

Writer/director: Michael BeranNZ / comedy / 12min / 2010

Friday Tigers

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Friday Tigers. Ngā Taika o te Rāmere from Notable Pictures on Vimeo.

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In Aidee Walker’s award-winning film we meet a mother tiger trying to build a brighter future for her daughter, with whom she has created a fantasy world of bumble-bees, spiders and wolves.

Cradle

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Eade is a 14yr-old girl returning to Earth on the spaceship Cradle when an explosion cripples the spacecraft and injures her dad. She must try to outwit the computer that refuses to perform the operation needed to save his life.

Fract

Gina Dellabarca is the Festival Director for Show Me Shorts Film Festival Trust, which she co-founded in 2006. Her background includes co-owning a cinema, marketing and publicity for films, Stardome Observatory and Auckland Zoo. Gina is an original member of the Wet Hot Beauties water ballet troupe, and a self-proclaimed “cheerleader” for New Zealand film.